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Dr Adam Wagner is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics theme, based at the Health Economics Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He originally trained as a Statistician (PhD from the University of Strathclyde) and has also completed an MSc in Health Economics at UEA (funded by the CLAHRC EoE). Adam provides health economic and statistical support for the CLAHRC East of England. Since 2010, he has worked in health services research, with a particular focus on health and social care services supporting women and men with learning (intellectual) disabilities and acquired brain injuries. While continuing this…

Alex Mendoza is a retired civil engineer with a history of involvement in health matters. He joined the East Herts Community Health council in 2000, and subsequently was elected as chair of the CHC's successor organisation - the local Health Forum. He maintains an interest in the provider side of the NHS as a member of his GP surgery's patient group and as a member Herts Urgent Care's Stakeholder Council. In 2006, the University of Hertfordshire established a Public Involvement in Research Group (PIR group) within its Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC) and he became one…

Dr Alexander Komashie joined the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre (EDC) and the CLAHRC CP in 2009 after completing his PhD in Brunel University, UK. His PhD, “Information-Theoretic and Stochastic Methods for Managing the Quality of Service and Satisfaction in Healthcare Systems” proposed the "E-Track NHS" system which looked at the application of real-time Discrete Event Simulation for improving healthcare system performance. He therefore has a keen interest in the use of the systems approach and particularly the modelling and simulation of healthcare systems. Alexander is currently in the Patient Safety Theme of CLAHRC East of England. His current research project…

Dr Alice Shiner gained her MBChB (Hons) at the University of Manchester in 2003 and holds a BSc (Hons) in International Health from University College London (2002). She also holds a Masters in Clinical Education from the University of East Anglia (2011) and is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. She is an academic GP, dividing her time between research, education and clinical practice. Her current research interests focus on multimorbidity, care planning, shared decision making and the GP workforce. She has expertise in qualitative research that she gained through her Masters study, which explored the transition…

Dr Andrew Bateman is Director of Research at The Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; Affiliated Lecturer, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge; and Chair of United Kingdom Aquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF). He is also Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Theme Lead for the NIHR BrainMIC. In his neurorehabilitation research he aims to draw together two elements stemming from his vocational and academic training in Physiotherapy and Cognitive Neuropsychology. The first is within the field of neuropsychology, at the intersection of vision and motor control, and the second concerns the application of modern psychometric techniques to develop objective measurement in rehabilitation outcomes…

Angela joined CLAHRC CP in April 2012 from the East Anglia Hub of the Mental Health Research Network which she managed for four years. Her background is in social care, where she worked as a care manager, and as a team leader for home care in community-based services for older people, run by Huntingdonshire Primary Care Trust. She also managed Warboys and District Day Care Centre for older people on behalf of a local charity. Before that, she had worked for seven years at a local water company within the Facilities and Company Secretariat departments. She gained a first degree…

Dr Angela Dickinson is a Senior Research Fellow in Older People’s Health at the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC), University of Hertfordshire. She is a social scientist with a background in nursing and nutrition. Her research interests include nutrition, falls, as well as the development and evaluation of health and social care services for older people, with a particular focus on older people’s views and experiences. Recent research includes evaluation of falls in acute settings for older people in an acute mental health setting funded by NIHR RfPB, along with a systematic review and a…

Angela has worked for the University of Cambridge since 2007. As Research PA to Dr Stephen Barclay, Angela joined CLAHRC CP in August 2009 as administrative support to the Palliative/CLAHRC End of Life Care worksteams

Anna Haggith is a Research Assistant on the 'Prison Care Pathways Project' and has worked previously on 'Dementia Champions in HMPs' and 'Buddying for improved health and social care of older prisons' projects. Prior to this Anna worked for RECOOP (Resettlement and Care for Older Ex-Offenders and Prisoners) as Capacity Building Consultant and has more than 18 year's experience working with young people, adults and offenders. Anna has also worked as a mentor/supporter for prisoners relocating into the community.

Anna Varley has worked as a health services researcher within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia since 2010. She qualified as a Social Worker in 2005 and has worked with a wide range of vulnerable people including older persons and sex workers. Anna worked on the CLAHRC East of England project IMPRESS (PPI Implementation study) and is currently working on NIHR funded project, PERFECTED (Peri-operative Enhanced Recovery hip FracturE Care of paTiEnts with Dementia) as a Senior Research Associate.

Dr Anne Killet's research interests are in the respectful care of older people, and in children and young people and mental well-being, with a particular interest in participative or collaborative approaches to research. Anne has recently been carrying out research into the organisational arrangements of care of older people using this approach. Anne led the CLAHRC study, 'Understanding PPI in older people's research - how best to enable meaningful PPI in research with older people living in residential settings' (CLAHRC EoE PPI Theme). Previous research projects examined collaborative community interventions and the impact of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and how this…

Dr Asmaa Abdelhamid is Senior Research Associate in Norwich Medical School. In addition to her clinical background as a community paediatrician, she has a wide range of research skills and experience especially research synthesis and evidence based medicine. She has worked on and published many systematic and other reviews. Research interests are broad and include preventive medicine and research synthesis. Asmaa worked on CLAHRC project 'Eating and Drinking Well IN dementiA' (EDWINA) which included a systematic review on the interventions to improve oral food and/or drink intake in people with dementia.

Position: Child and Young People’s Lead Psychologist for Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust

Dr Ayla Humphrey is Child and Young People’s Lead Psychologist for Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust. She is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge and a member of Cambridge Neuroscience Network. She led the development of clinical services for children and families including the first UK holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation service for children with brain injury (CCPNR, Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation); a school-based mental health screening and early intervention program (FAB, Family Happiness and Well-being Project); and Paediatric Psychology Services, Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Ayla's research focuses on early childhood development and early interventions including the…

Professor Carol Brayne is an epidemiologist and public health physician. Her research programme includes research into dementia, healthy ageing and neuropsychiatric epidemiology. The research is multidisciplinary and the Cambridge team straddles the Department of Public health and Primary Care, and the MRC Biostatics Unit (Led by Dr Fiona Matthews). The MRC study of Cognitive Function and Ageing (CFAS) constitutes a major part of the research of this group. Ageing of the global population will be an area of policy interest for many decades as the numbers of old-old individuals increases dramatically. Carol is also Director of the Cambridge Institute of…

Carole joined the CLAHRC East of England in January 2017. Based at the University of East Anglia, Carole co-ordinates research projects investigated by the Universities of East Anglia and Hertfordshire, and provides support to the Deputy Director, Professor Mioshi, and the Core team at CLAHRC East of England. Carole facilitated several high-profile PPI projects for a patient watchdog for almost 10 years and is consequently familiar with policy affecting the commissioning and provision of NHS services. More recently she managed a Big Lottery project for 4 advice agencies and developed bids for funding applications for Norfolk Citizens Advice Bureau. With…

Caroline Lee is a Research Associate at the Institute of Public Health, with over 20 years experience in project and programme evaluation and research across wide ranging policy areas, including education, employment, childcare, health and public health. Recent projects include: reviewing the potential of time credit systems for improving public health; engaging communities in thinking about dementia risk; investigating approaches to peer support for prisoners; and evaluating a creative participatory workshop approach to research with young people attending CAMHS. Before joining the University of Cambridge, Caroline has held research positions at the University of Oxford, IPSOS MORI and ECORYS consultancies.…

Dr Carrie Allison is a research manager at the Autism Research Centre. Projects she has worked on include: Early Screening for autism at 18 months; Adolescent and Childhood Autism Spectrum Quotient, and the prevalence of autism spectrum conditions in primary schools (CAST).

Dr Chiara Lombardo is a Chartered Psychologist, with a background in social sciences. She has been conducting research in different context of public health and emotional wellbeing, using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to inform the development of practice and knowledge. She has conducted a number of projects focused on developing educational interventions, service design and evaluation, and workforce development. Dr Lombardo has worked with service users, carers and professionals from a wide range of health services. She is interested in translating psychological theories into public health policies, and to examine how the wider organisational culture…

My main areas of work have involved evidence based mental health, pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in dementia. I have developed areas of dementia health service research in primary care, care homes and acute hospital settings. Current research themes are focused on enhancing care for patients with established with dementia and improving early intervention and prevention strategies. My research work is currently funded by the National Institute of Health Research, industry and charitable foundations. I have a national and international network of research collaborators and I am recognised internationally as a leading researcher in older peoples’ mental health.

Chris Skedgel is Senior Lecturer in Applied Health Economics in the Health Economics Group at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. His primary research interest is around the role of public preferences over the allocation of limited resources in promoting societal value and distributive justice in healthcare. This includes the development of stated preference methods for eliciting valid and reliable societal preference weights as well as processes for incorporating public preferences into priority-setting. He also conducts economic evaluations to consider the 'value-for-money' of new interventions and has worked in disease areas including cancer, haematology, rheumatology, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular…

Christina is Professor of Rehabilitation Research in the School of Health Sciences. An occupational therapists by background her clinical career started in the UK where she specialised as a hand therapist. Christina currently leads a programme of research on musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb. She has held several NIHR training fellowships and is an NIHR Training advocate for occupational therapy.

Christina-Jane graduated from the University of Southampton in 2013 with Biomedical Sciences (BSc) and has also gained her MSc in Health Economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA). After completion of her masters, she worked as a Research Associate at the UEA for a short time. She continues to study at the UEA and began her Health Economics PhD in January 2015 under the supervision of Professor Garry Barton, Professor Andrew Wilson, and Professor Tracey Sach. Her PhD is entitled: “Economics of asthma: estimating quality of life in people with asthma attacks”. This PhD has three main components where,…

Dr Christine Hill is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine based at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health (CIPH) with Professor Carol Brayne’s research team. Christine worked previously in clinical medicine and then for 13 years in healthcare management at executive director level in the acute hospitals sector in South Africa and the UK. Christine’s special interests include translation of research into policy and practice, health policy and management, and screening in disease prevention. Christine holds Masters degrees in Business Administration, Law (in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice), Public Health, and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health…

Professor Claire Goodman is a district nurse by background and Professor of Health Care Research at the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC) at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research focuses on the oldest old and how primary health care works with social care and long term care providers to support this population. She leads a programme of nationally funded studies on health care provision to care homes. In the CLAHRC she is the national lead for the Cross-CLAHRC care home research work stream and is chair of the capacity building committee. She is a founder…

After graduating with degrees in Economics and Health Economics at the Universities of Southampton and York David worked as a health economist a number of Universities. A key component of David’s academic career has been the design, implementation and analysis of economic evaluations alongside clinical studies, particularly randomized controlled trials. He has been involved in numerous trials as the health economist. David has also been involved with a number of health economic models as well as NICE technology appraisals. A feature of his research career has been involvement in multi-disciplinary research. He has collaborated with a number of clinical and…

Diane is a Lecturer in Nursing Sciences (Adult) at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Diane is a nurse by background with current research focusing on hydration and nutritional care in older people living in care homes.

Liz is a member of the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. She has a background in general nursing and nursing for people with learning disabilities. She worked for many years in local integrated specialist community teams providing health care and care management for people with learning disabilities and has long-standing interests in systemic approaches to supporting men and women with additional mental health and/or behavioural needs and in the management of epilepsy. Liz worked as a Practitioner Researcher in the Enduring Disabilities and/or Disadvantage Theme within CLAHRC East…

Position: Senior Research Fellow and Co-Lead for the PPI Theme in Research Theme

Dr. Elspeth Mathie has worked as Researcher in CRIPACC (Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care), University of Hertfordshire since 2005, and previously Exeter University where she gained her MA and PhD. She has over 20 years of health research experience. Since April 2014 Elspeth has been part of the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in Research Theme at CLAHRC East of England. She is a member of PIRg (Public Involvement in Research group) at University of Hertfordshire. Her past research has included NIHR funded studies in care homes focusing on end of life care and dementia (Prof.…

Emma Joined CLAHRC in July 2014 from Care Management Group where she worked as Assistant Operations Director and was responsible for community based services for adults across Hertfordshire and Greater London. Prior to this Emma worked as a Business Development Manager for Crossroads Care Cambridgeshire , working on a number of collaborative and preventative services for Carers, including ICER (Individual Carers Emergency Respite) and the GP Carers Services Prescription Service. She has worked in managerial roles within the health and social care sector for over 11 years both in third sector and private organisations and gained a Masters in Business…

Dr Emma Howarth is a Senior Research Associate in the innovation and evaluation of population health interventions theme. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating interventions and services to improve children’s mental health outcomes. She has a particular interest in those interventions aimed at ‘high risk’ groups, with specific expertise regarding children’s exposure to hostile, coercive and violent family environments. She is currently leading on a Delphi study to identify priority features of a comprehensive community based child and adolescent mental health service; a mixed methods case study evaluation of the implementation of CYP-IAPT in Cambridgeshire, and a mixed method…

Eneida Mioshi is an occupational therapist by background (BSc Hons and MSc OT; University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) with a PhD in Applied Cognitive Psychology (University of Cambridge). She has over 20 years of clinical and research experience working in multiple countries: Brazil, UK and Australia. Her research programme addresses the complex interactions of brain changes, functional dependence, and family context in dementia and motor neurone disease. Her clinical research goal is to improve the lives of those affected by these neurodegenerative conditions, through the development of tailored care that is grounded on research evidence. Her applied research programme has…

Fergus is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the Department of Clinical Psychology, seconded from his post as Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist in Cambridgeshire Community Services (NHS) Trust. He was formerly the Clinical Lead for the Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. Clinical and research interests are in neuropsychological rehabilitation, specifically self-regulation, identity, emotional adjustment and psychological therapy following brain injury, and he has published a number of papers and book chapters on these topics. Fergus holds honorary positions as a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist with the Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, NIHR CLAHRC East of…

Professor Fiona Poland is co-lead of the Public and Patient Involvement Theme for CLAHRC EoE. Fiona's career-long concern has been to use the power of qualitative research methods to address the health and wellbeing concerns of individuals and communities. She has worked to promote collaborations and respectful working across voluntary, statutory, academic and policy boundaries especially in community settings, and to improve the lives of those who live and work with dementia. Her research projects and publications explore how and how far community connections and participation may affect access to resources for health and wellbeing. She was twice Chair and…

Professor Garry Barton has a chair in Health Economics and is a member of the Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia and his main area of expertise is in the application and development of the methods of economic evaluation. Methodological work which Professor Barton has undertaken includes the comparison of two measures of utility (the EQ-5D and SF-6D) which can be used to measure the benefits of interventions, where the practicality, construct validity, and responsiveness of these two measures were assessed. As a health economist, Garry is a co-applicant on…

Dr Gemma Clarke is the project lead on the Future Care Study which examines feeding issues at the end of life for those with progressive neurological disease. Previously she has worked on decision-making concerning artificial nutrition for those at risk of lacking capacity, and decisions to stop oral palliative anticancer drugs. Before joining CLAHRC, Gemma completed her PhD at the Institute of Criminology, Gonville and Caius College.

My background is in Education having obtained a first degree from the University of London and a Masters Degree from Nottingham University. I have been a carer for many years and involved with mental health research/PPI for over ten years. During this time I have been involved with Research Governance, research carried out by UCL and the Institute of Psychiatry as well as participating in various working groups and staff training/selection. I joined CLAHRC as PPI Adviser in 2014

I want to be able to contribute to and influence the future embedment of PPI within the research arena. To date I have been involved as advisor member of working groups and part of a research team which enables me to be involved in the strategic direction of PPI in research. My PPI experience includes Founding member of the PPI Group Inspire based at Ely which started in 2011, Member of Addenbrookes PPI Panel since 2015, Advisory and Research Member of the CLAHRC Sponsored PPI Feedback Project and PPI Advisor on RDS Training and Project Evaluation Days. In addition to…

Dr Harriet Cooper joined the CLAHRC East of England in October 2015 with a background in medical humanities and disability studies, having recently completed a PhD thesis on literary and cultural representations of disabled children at Birkbeck, University of London. Her project for the CLAHRC Public and Patient Involvement Theme is provisionally entitled ‘Rights-based Rehabilitation: a qualitative research project co-produced with disabled people’. It will explore disabled people’s experiences of and perspectives on rehabilitation. As an academic who is moving into the social sciences following a period of cross-disciplinary humanities research, Harriet has a longstanding interest in the differences between…

Dr Helena Wythe Helena has been working in CRIPACC at the University of Hertfordshire (Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care) on two CLAHRC projects from the PPI Theme since September 2014; 'IMPRESS' and 'Completing the Feedback Cycle'. Helena has worked in research since graduating in 2000. Prior to starting her PhD, Helena worked in the pharmaceutical industry (placement year), within the NHS (University College London), in academia (UCL and UH) and within social care when researching her PhD.

Dr Howard Ring's background is in research, education and clinical service development in neuropsychiatry and the psychiatry of intellectual disabilities (ID). Howard's research initiatives with CLAHRC included the study of non-pharmacological approaches to epilepsy management in adults with ID and the application of EEG and psychophysiological measures to investigate biological associations of behavioural symptoms in people with neurodevelopmental disorders. Howard also worked on a CLAHRC acceptability and feasibility study seeking to understand if transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) modulation of heart rate variability can reduce aggression by adults with developmental or acquired brain injury.

Dr Isabel Clare is a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist in the Enduring Disabilities and/or Disadvantage Theme, where, reflecting her clinical experience and one of her main areas of research interest, she leads projects (i) examining the design and delivery of services by Community Learning Disabilities Teams to men and women with learning (intellectual) disabilities and additional mental health and/or behavioural needs, and (ii) investigating the impact of transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (tVNS) on the aggressive behaviour of people with neurodevelopmental conditions (learning disabilities and/or autism) or acquired brain injury. She is also a Fellow and Tutor at Lucy Cavendish…

Jackie Buck is Lecturer in Adult Nursing, School of Health Sciences, at the University of East Anglia where she is the academic lead for Research Teaching on the MSc in Adult Nursing. Her research interests are communication and decision making in health care, improving quality of life of older people living at home and support for end-of-life care in the community. Jackie qualified with a BSc in Nursing Studies from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in 1998. Following a varied clinical career that included coronary care and care of the elderly, she completed an MSc in Health Services and Public…

James is a Chartered Engineer, with research interests in systems engineering, safety engineering and human factors engineering. His work centres around how these areas can be adapted and adopted to help improve patient safety and quality in the NHS. A particular research focus is in systems safety assessment, using a range of proactive risk assessment techniques to identify and manage risks in the healthcare system. James is a founding member of the Health Foundation's Q Initiative - a long-term endeavour to encourage quality improvement across the NHS.

Dr Jane Fleming joined the University of Cambridge’s Department of Public Health and Primary Care in 2000 for training in epidemiology and statistics from a clinical and research background primarily in nursing older people, osteoporosis and fracture prevention. She is a study co-ordinator for the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study, and during her health services research doctorate she expanded the CC75C study’s focus to include a prospective study of falls amongst over-90-year-olds. She has since been leading a project combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine end-of-life care issues from the perspective of very old people and their carers…

Jane joined the CLAHRC East of England in August 2017 from the Patient Experience Team with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. Jane set up, implemented and managed the volunteers service for 5 years during which time over 500 volunteers added real value to service users, carers and themselves. Jane gained a First degree in Psychology from the Open University and it was during this time that her interest in research was ignited. As part of her secondment role in the CLAHRC, Jane would like to broaden her knowledge of the research world and gain experience in this exciting area…

Jasmine is a Counselling Psychologist, and joins the CLAHRC team as a researcher on the DEAL study, which focuses on the early identification of mental health issues in primary school children. As part of her training Jasmine worked in NHS mental health services including IAPT and Secondary Care, delivering various models of therapy. Her research focus was a qualitative study into the transdiagnostic application of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) in the private mental healthcare system. Prior to her training she worked for a year at the Priory Hospital in Roehampton as an assistant psychologist on various wards, and also has…

Since qualifying as a mental health nurse in 2010, I have always worked with people who have dementia; on an acute dementia ward, as a memory assessor, dementia liaison nurse at a general hospital and as a community dementia nurse. Even in my relatively short time as a nurse, opportunities for higher education have grown noticeably. Initially I undertook a Postgraduate Certificate in Dementia Leadership, shortly afterwards I successfully completed the MSc in Clinical Research at the UEA. During the MSc I constructed a systematic review in Dementia Diagnostic Counselling and this led to my successful appointment to the CLAHRC…

Dr Jeanette Cossar took her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge before studying as a Fulbright Scholar in the US. She is a registered social worker, who worked in Cambridgeshire in child protection and with looked after children. She moved to the University of East Anglia in 2006 to take up a lecturing post and is currently a senior lecturer in the School of Social Work at UEA, where she has been programme leader for the Masters in Social Work. Her research interests focus on exploring the views of children and young people on social work services and she…

Dr Jo Anderson joined CLAHRC in September 2015 as a systematic reviewer. She is currently leading a research team working on developing a community based service model to promote mental health and emotional well-being of children and young people. Dr Anderson is a Chartered Psychologist with background in neuropsychology and health psychology. She had previously worked for Coventry University at Applied Research Centre for Health and Lifestyle Interventions. Her research focused on using new technologies to deliver health interventions to people living with long term health conditions. She developed and evaluated a number of self-management interventions including programmes for people…

Professor John Clarkson is Professor of Engineering Design, Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre. He returned to the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, in 1995 following a seven-year spell with PA Consulting Group's Technology Division where he was Manager of the Advanced Process Group. He was appointed director of the Engineering Design Centre in 1997 and a University Professor in 2004. John is directly involved in the teaching of design at all levels of the undergraduate course. At PA John gained wide experience of product development with a particular focus on the design of medical equipment and high-integrity systems, where…

Dr Joyce Coker is a Research Associate in the Dementia, Frailty and End of Life theme. She is based in the Cambridge Institute of Public Health and has a background in Human Physiology and Public Health. During her PhD (University of Leeds, 2015), she used quantitative and qualitative research methods to examine the influence of statin-use on the dietary and exercise patterns; health beliefs; and perceived availability of social support of adults at risk of cardiovascular disease in South Yorkshire and in urban and semi-urban cities in Nigeria. She currently works on the Frailty Trajectories project which aims to optimise…

Dr Julia Jones is Reader in Patient Experience and Public Involvement in the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC) in the School of Health and Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire. Julia leads the Patient Experience and Public Involvement research unit in CRIPACC and chairs the Public Involvement in Research group (PIRg) and the Service User and Carer Core Group (SUPI) which co-ordinates user and carer involvement across the School of Health and Social Work. Julia is a health geographer by background and has worked primarily in the field of mental health research for twenty…

Dr Julieta Galante is a Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. In addition to her background as a qualified medical doctor, she has a wide range of research skills. She has conducted randomised trials and systematic reviews in public and mental health, worked on economic evaluations, and analysed data from UK Biobank and Caerphilly population-based cohorts. Julieta has established research interests in preventative medicine and the effects of lifestyle on health. Her main focus has been studying the effects of meditation on mental health, which was the theme of her PhD at Cardiff University. She led…

Dr Jurgen Grotz joined the University of East Anglia, School of Health Sciences as Senior Research Associate in Patient and Public Involvement in Research for CLAHRC, East of England in August 2017. With over two decades of experience in applied community research his largely interdisciplinary work has a strong focus on participative approaches and public engagement, working across the academic, public, voluntary and community sectors. He has recently co-edited the prestigious Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations (2016).

Dr Lee Hooper is a NIHR Career Development Fellow, carrying out research to identify the early stages of dehydration in older people. She is a dietitian and nutritionist with a long term interest in the nutrition and hydration of older people. She is an expert systematic reviewer and has developed, managed and authored many systematic reviews. Lee has been an editor for the Cochrane Heart Group for 12 years, was an editor of the Cochrane Oral Health Group for 5 years, and regularly referees systematic reviews for top medical and nutrition journals. Lee has a BSc in Biochemistry, PhD (University…

Linda Barnes is Senior Study Coordinator of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies which are population based studies of individuals aged 65 years and over living in the community, including institutions. Linda's research interests are Dementia, healthy ageing and neuropsychiatric epidemiology. Linda worked with Professor Carol Brayne on the Population Dementia Risk Reduction project.

Lisa Irvine is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Group at UEA. She has expertise in conducting economic evaluations alongside clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and population surveys, applied to a variety of conditions, primarily in public health, mental illness, and care for the elderly. As part of CLAHRC, her projects include an economic evaluation of the EQUIP trial, and comparison of health resource use measurement in clinical trials.

Lorna joined the CLAHRC East of England in June 2014 from the NIHR CRN: Eastern, Mental Health team (previously named the Mental Health Research Network East Anglia Hub). Lorna line managed the Hub team and lead on the feasibility and set-up of commercial and non-commercial portfolio projects. During nearly 5 years with the Hub, Lorna progressed from the Clinical Studies Officer (CSO) role to the Senior CSO position, before taking leadership of the team during a transitive period. Her background is in research, having worked as Research Assistant at the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge before…

Dr Louise Lafortune is a Senior Research Associate in the Dementia, Frailty and End of life care theme. She has a background in Neurosciences, Public Health and Ageing, and nine years of industry experience in clinical trial, health economics and outcomes research. Her research interests encompass the development, evaluation and implementation of innovative methods and service delivery models aimed at improving care for individuals with complex health and social care needs, namely frail older people. Concerned with the practical application of research findings for patient benefits, her responsibilities include knowledge synthesis, public health analysis and evaluation of changes in services…

Dr Manaan Kar Ray is a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist based in Cambridge and the Clinical Director for Acute Care Mental Health within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. He trained in Oxford (both basic and specialist). Manaan has a specific clinical and research interest in mood disorders and psychosis and has extensive experience of working with complex and resistant cases. Manaan led the PROMISE (PROactive Management of Integrated Services and Environments) which included an exploration of staff and patient experience of physical intervention on mental health wards and their suggestions for reducing its use.

Dr Marina Buswell has both a research background and experience working in the NHS. She has worked in PCTs in health promotion (as a stop smoking facilitator) and then commissioning information. Her PhD (2001, Cambridge) is in organic chemistry and from there she moved to work at the Commission for Health Improvement on clinical governance reviews, investigations and evaluating the CHD National Service Framework. Her research interests developed through studying part-time for a Masters in Public Health (Kings, 2006) and she carried out a qualitative evaluation of a school-based stop smoking pilot project for the MPH dissertation. Marina previously worked…

Professor Mark Whiting is a Consultant Nurse for Children with Complex Health Needs in Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. He also holds an appointment (one as WellChild Professor of Community Children’s Nursing at the University of Hertfordshire. WellChild is a National Charity whose work is focused upon the provision of care, support and research for children with long term and complex health needs and Mark’s research focus will be in this area. Mark has a long-standing involvement in the development of Community Children’s Nursing services across the United Kingdom and his interest in this area incorporates elements of clinical practice, strategic…

Martina di Simplicio (MD, PhD) is a Career Development Fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. Her research interest is in understanding the cognitive mechanisms that underly psychopathology and that drive successful treatment of mental disorders, whether pharmacological or psychological. Her focus is on young people and vulnerability to emotional disorders, with the aim of developing innovative preventative interventions. Martina trained in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Siena, Italy. During her PhD (with Prof Catherine Harmer, University of Oxford) she investigated how antidepressants shift negative emotional biases in young people at risk for depression.…

Mike Cook has a background in nursing and education. In the CLAHRC, he facilitates the Fellows Action Learning Sets. Mike holds Masters Degrees in Quality Management and Leadership Management. His Doctorate focused on clinical leadership and his findings influenced national clinical leadership programmes in several countries. His research focuses on healthcare leadership and the impact of health education. He provides Executive Coaching, Action Learning Set facilitation and Consultancy to a range of clients in the health and education sectors. His previous posts include Professorial appointments in a number of British Universities.

Dr Mike Radford trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford graduating in 2000. After house officer posts in Oxford and Chelmsford he completed his GP training in Chelmsford in 2004. He became a partner at Tennyson House Surgery, Chelmsford in 2005 and has been a GP trainer since 2010, regularly teaching medical students within the practice Mike joined the University of Cambridge Primary Care Unit in September 2015 as a CLAHRC Primary Care fellow and worked on the NIHR funded MelaTools programme which aims to improve timely diagnosis of melanoma by researching the use of skin self- monitoring apps by…

Dr Mila Petrova background is in psychology, philosophy and literature. She has worked primarily on issues of organisational change and new roles in the health services, end of life care, health information technology, research synthesis (including her PhD on how we transform evidence for the purposes of systematic reviews and other synthesis studies) and health-related values. More recently Mila was a Research Associate at the Palliative and End of Life Care Group of the Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge. Together with Dr Stephen Barclay, she is completed the “Prepared to Share?” study…

Position: University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr Paul Wilkinson is University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. His particular clinical areas of interest are adolescent depression and self-harm. He carries out research into the epidemiology and treatment of depression and self-harm. Paul also leads teaching of psychiatry to clinical medicine students at the University of Cambridge. Paul leading a CLAHRC project which is evaluated the first UK pilot of interpersonal counseling (IPC) for adolescents, by Suffolk local authority family support workers.

Professor Peter Jones is Director of the NIHR CLAHRC East of England. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Peter studied anatomy and neurobiology at King’s College, London, and qualified in medicine from Westminster Medical School. He studied at the Bethlem & Maudsley Hospitals and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine before being appointed in 1993 as Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry. In 1997 he took up the Chair of Psychiatry in Nottingham, moving to Cambridge in 2000. Peter’s research…

Dr. Pranathi Ramachandra DPM, MRCPsych is a psychiatrist trained in the UK and in India, and has higher specialist qualifications in old age and general adult psychiatry. She is primarily a clinician but has also been involved in clinical research in a variety of conditions in both countries. She currently works as a consultant psychiatrist in the Older Adults’ Mental Health Services in Cambridge. She is actively involved in dementia research in collaboration with the University of Cambridge department of Psychiatry, the NIHR and industry.

Rachel Daly is a Queens Nurse and a District Nurse by background; she has been leading an integrated team of health and social care professionals in supporting the care sector in improving the quality of care prior to commencing her PhD focussing on Dementia Care in Care Homes at the University Hertfordshire. Rachel is particularly interested in integrated care and understanding the experience of people with dementia and their carers and has recently studied to become a Best Interest Assessor at Bournemouth University.

Rashmi Becker previously gained an MPhil in Education from the University of Cambridge and has since gained a depth and breadth of professional experience working for central government, the EU institutions and national learning disability and autism social care providers. Witnessing first-hand the challenges and opportunities concerning social care has motivated Rashmi to return to complete a PhD, exploring the commodification of care and implications for people with a learning disability. The 3-year PhD studentship, which commenced in 2015 is funded by CLAHRC East of England and is part of the Enduring Disabilities and Disadvantage Research Theme.

Professor Ric Fordham is Professor in Public Health Economics at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. He is also Director of Health Economics Consulting at UEA. Ric trained at York, Leeds, LSE, Western Australia and Cambridge universities and has worked extensively in Health Economics for over 25 years internationally as well as in the UK. His main interests are: Economics of public health; technology appraisal; innovation diffusion and ‘return on investment'; multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA). He retains a strong research interest in the economics of bone and joint disease. Recent research has…

Rosetta Ude Okeleke obtained a Bachelor of pharmacy (Bpharm)degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a post graduate diploma (PGD)in pharmaceutical sciences from the university of Sunderland, and a masters in public health(MPH,Leadership and Management) from the school of health and related research (ScHARR),The University of Sheffield. Rosetta has a background in the hospital pharmacy and community pharmacy practices as well as in management. She is currently enrolled as a PhD student(studentship) at the University of Hertfordshire. The 3-year PhD studentship is funded by CLAHRC East of England and is part of the Patient Safety Research Theme. The title of…

Ruth joined the CLAHRC in June 2016 as Project Support to the Core team. Prior to this, Ruth worked in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG at which she started in the Complex Cases Continuing Health Care Team dealing with Retrospective Cases. Ruth then moved into the Local Commissioning group of the CCG, the Cambridge System, offering office support to the whole team. Ruth will apply her previous experience and training in administration, communications and event organisation to support the CLAHRC core team and may also provide support to themes when required as part of her role.

Sabina joined the CLAHRC in May 2015 to provide administrative support to the Dementia, Frailty and End of Life Care theme led by Carol Brayne. Sabina is based at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health (CIPH). She previously worked in a variety of different settings including the legal and property industry.

Position: Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent

Sally Kendall has 30 years’ academic experience and a background in nursing and health visiting. She is currently Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent. Sally became a health visitor and family planning nurse in 1982 and worked in London until taking up a research post at Kings College, London University. She gained her PhD from Kings College London in 1991, becoming first Professor of Nursing at University of Hertfordshire and subsequently also the Director of the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC). Sally’s interests are focused…

Sam Treacy is currently working on projects focused on older prisoners at the University of Cambridge, as part of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health. She has previously worked on research evaluating services and interventions for people with mental health or substance misuse problems, as well as exploring their experiences of stigma and discrimination. Sam also worked within NHS mental health services across community, inpatient and forensic settings for a number of years.

Dr Sarah Hoare worked on a sociological study exploring hospital admissions for patients close to the end of life within the Dementia, Frailty and End of Life Care Theme. Before joining CLAHRC East of England, Sarah completed an undergraduate degree in Politics and Sociology at the University of Exeter and an MPhil in Educational Research at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. Read about Sarah's latest publication: http://www.clahrc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/2015/11/uncertainty-about-where-patients-want-to-die-not-everyone-chooses-home/

Sarah Rae worked for many years as a research assistant at the Cambridge Visual Development Unit before joining the CLAHRC, as a PPI Advisor, in April 2011. She is a long-term mental health service user who trained 8 years ago as Expert by Experience with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) and more recently as a Patient Leader. This led to many new opportunities including the chance to become involved in Trust research projects, working groups and staff training. She also works as a Trustee of national Mind, is co-founder of PROMISE Global and a member of the…

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge. He holds degrees in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a PhD in Psychology from UCL, and an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry. He held lectureships in both of these departments in London before moving to Cambridge in 1994. He is also Director of CLASS (Cambridge Lifespan Asperger Syndrome Service), a clinic for adults with suspected AS. He has been awarded prizes from the American Psychological…

Dr Stephen Barclay qualified in 1981 following medical training in Cambridge and Oxford. After GP training in Bristol he started GP work in a market town practice in the Cambridgeshire Fens and then in 1990 moved to a GP practice in Cambridge. He continues to work clinically in both General Practice and Palliative Medicine and is Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine at the Arthur Rank House hospice and at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He leads the teaching of Palliative Care in the School of Clinical Medicine of the University of Cambridge and is Clinical Lead for End of Life Care…

Sue trained as a Mental Health Nurse in West London in 1995 working in an Older Adults Day Hospital and then a Community Mental Health Team completing her Specialist Practitioner qualification in 2002. From there Sue worked in a variety of clinical settings with people with dementia and complex needs. Providing assessment, diagnosis and ongoing treatment for people at home, in long term care and in hospital. Sue has also managed a Regional Training and Development team providing accredited health and social care qualifications for staff working in domically, residential and community based services and has taught in both further…

Sue has a background in Psychology and has previously worked in a number of different settings including in education. She was a member of the CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and is now based at Douglas House in the Enduring Disabilities and/or Disadvantage (EDD) Theme, led by Professor Tony Holland. She provides a range of administrative support to the Theme and, in addition, supports the research team that is examining the design and delivery of support by Community Teams for People with Learning Disabilities to men and women with intellectual disabilities (led by Isabel Clare).

Dr Terry Dickerson is the CLAHRC East of England Patient Safety Theme Coordinator and Assistant Director, Healthcare Design for the Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre. Terry is a Chartered Engineer with a considerable range of industrial experience and achieved his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nottingham in 1990.

Tine Van Bortel (PhD) is the CLAHRC EoE Principal Investigator of the Prison Mental Health Programme researching into care for older people with dementia in prisons and upon resettlement. She was also co-supervisor and collaborator on the CLAHRC PROMISE (Proactive Management of Integrated Services and Environments for mental health) project. Tine has a background in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Social Sciences & Health, Public Mental Health, Health & Sustainable Development, and a Professional Mental Health Coaching Qualification (FRTC). Her research interests cover public health improvement, promotion and sustainability – both locally and globally – with specific interest and expertise in mental health,…

Emeritus Professor Tony Holland leads the Enduring Disabilities and Disadvantage (EDD) theme of the CLAHRC and since 2002 he has held the Health Foundation Chair in Learning Disabilities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Together with colleagues he established the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group (CIDDRG). He has collaborated on research in a broad range of topics including: ageing and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome; the behavioural and psychiatric aspects of Prader Willi Syndrome; the interface between clinical and social care practice and the law including studies relating to…

Professor Tracey Sach has a chair in Health Economics and is a member of the Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia and her main area of expertise is in the methods and application of economic evaluation in health. Tracey has undertaken methodological work exploring how to measure costs and outcomes in economic evaluations. This has included work comparing methods for measuring productivity costs; research comparing two measures of utility (the EQ-5D and SF-6D); and projects testing the use of contingent valuation methods to estimate a monetary willingness to pay value.…

Position: Director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC), School of Health and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire

Wendy Wills is Director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC) at the School of Health and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire, where is also an Associate Dean for Research. CRIPACC is world renowned for its inter- and multi-disciplinary research on older people's health and complex conditions; health, young people and family lives; public health and communities research; and patient experience and public involvement in research. In terms of her own research Prof Wills works at the interface of social science and public health in relation to food, food safety, eating, weight/obesity and health inequalities.…